- application in the pedagogical activity of modern scientific approaches, critical
thinking, skills of heuristic search and methods of scientific and pedagogical research,
including analysis of own experience and experience of their colleagues (research
function);
- comprehension of the fundamentals of its activity, during which the assessment
and revaluation of abilities, errors and opportunities of pupils and oneself, the
development of reflection in the course, and the construction of the "I-concept" in
subjects of the sports process (reflexive function) are carried out [4].
The article [10] provides an example of the identification and synthesis of
individual experiences in the interests of improving medical practice, from which it is
evident that the authors were satisfied in this case with a survey of only 10 people that
we took into account as a conditional limit.
Results of empirical research. In the first study aimed at updating and describing
the experience of leading experts in sports, a survey was conducted by 18 Honored
Coaches of Ukraine on various sports that work in the Pridneprovsk State Academy of
Physical Culture and Sports and the Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture. The
survey was conducted according to the author's questionnaire, which includes a number
of open and closed questions. Answers to the closed questions of questionnaire № 1,
obtained by interviewing experts, are summarized in table 1.
Table 1 Responses of the Honored Coaches of Ukraine to the part
of the closed ones questionnaire questions (n = 18)
№
Questionnaire question
Agree
Difficult
to answer
Disagree
1. Do you agree with the statement that reform of sport in
Ukraine is needed to create a truly effective sports training
system?
18
(100%)
-
-
2. Do you agree with the statement that as the transition from
the initial training to the stage of maximum realization of
individual opportunities increases as personal responsibility,
as well as the ability of the athlete to influence the
competitive?
18
(100%)
-
-
3. Do you agree with the statement that sports activity, which
manifests itself in personal responsibility, the ability to
improvise, in making the right decisions during the
competition, largely determines the final sporting result?
18
(100%)
-
-
4. Do you agree that one of the main results of an effective
system of sports training should be the formation of a
responsible and independent person of the athlete, which can
be said that it has formed a sporting activity?
10
(55.6%)
6
(33.3%)
2
(11.1%)
As can be seen from table 1, the first three questions were answered 100%
"Agree". In this way, the Honored Coaches of Ukraine, selected as experts, have
expressed their agreement that the reform of sport in Ukraine should create an effective
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